What happens to attached stories and photos when a group member is marked deceased?
Does the deceased member of our group become public with all of their attached memories? When an account holder of a regular FamilySearch tree account dies, they are marked deceased by the church if they are a member And their account is closed. Since their memories were attached to that account, it seems they are no longer attached to the public deceased person. Is this a solution to that problem? Does the deceased person in our group need to be merged with the public deceased person (with a different PID number)? What if a person has no family with whom to create a Family Group Tree? How can their memories be preserved? Thanks.
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When any living profile is marked as deceased, it becomes public and all the attached memories remain attached. The profile will appear to every user just as it currently appears to those users who could see it when it was marked living. The fact that a profile started in a Family Group Tree does not change that.
However, that is very different than a user passing away and that user's account being closed. When that occurs, no one can access that user's account or that user's Gallery. That Gallery not being accessible to anyone has no affect on how the memories in that Gallery are tagged to profiles and visible on those profiles. The only memories that will not be available for others to see will be those that were never tagged to any profile, but then those profiles could never be access by anyone except the user anyway. Even in a Family Group, you can't access each other's Galleries.
Regarding merging, yes, when a profile in a private space is marked deceased and becomes public it should be merged with all duplicates.
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The privacy of memories can be set so that only group members can see them. So the visibility of memories after a living person in a group is marked deceased depends on the privacy setting of the memory. As I understand it, those memories only visible to group members will remain with that restriction even after the deceased profile becomes public. I'm wondering if the default privacy setting on memories is public or private to the group. If the default is private, we'll have unavailable memories on that profile forever once the memory adder's account is removed because they're the only one who could change the privacy setting.
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@Valerie Lathen Both @Gordon Collett and @BGPSW are correct. I would add one thing, however. If a person uploads to their gallery and logs the memories as public but doesn't attach them to any profiles, the memories are still visible by the public, just not able to be searched for. If you happened to stumble on them, you could still view them and tag them to profiles, but since you cannot search for them (unless they added tags) it is somewhat of a moot point.
Something along these lines came up in a post in the Memory Viewer group. You could tag all of your own images with a special tag that you create. Something like: SCJArchive. Then after your decease, anyone searching on that tag could still find all the memories uploaded and made public.
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